Comedy
Tonight at 6 pm hear a replay of Friday's Aerial View show Everything Sucks & People Are Stupid on thehoundnyc.com. At 7 pm Aerial View becomes available as a podcast here. Aerial View's Facebook page is here.Join me for another Aerial View every Friday, 6 PM eastern time on thehoundnyc,com.The rundown:Living in the Upside DownRadio, the new TV.Hospital Shootings.All that and YOUR CALLS at 929-456-2763.The quote:"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John SteinbeckThe Poem:St. Andrew’s Day, 1935Sharply the menacing wind sweeps overthe bending poplars, newly bare,and the dark ribbons of the chimneysveer downward; flicked by whips of air.Torn posters flutter; coldly soundthe boom of trams and the rattle of hooves,and the clerks who hurry to the stationlook, shuddering, over the eastern rooves,thinking, each one, ‘Here comes the winter!Please God I keep my job this year!’And bleakly, as the cold strikes throughtheir entrails like an icy spear,they think of rent, rates, season tickets,insurance, coal, the skivvy’s wages,boots, school-bills, and the next installmentupon the two twin beds from Drage’s.For if in careless summer daysin groves of Ashtaroth we whored,repentant now, when winds blow cold,we kneel before our rightful lord;the lord of all, the money-god,who rules us blood and hand and brain,who gives the roof that stops the wind,and, giving, takes away again;who spies with jealous, watchful care,our thoughts, our dreams, our secret ways,who picks our words and cuts our clothes,and maps the pattern of our days;who chills our anger, curbs our hope,and buys our lives and pays with toys,who claims as tribute broken faith,accepted insults, muted joys;who binds with chains the poet’s wit,the navvy’s strength, the soldier’s pride,and lays the sleek, estranging shieldbetween the lover and his bride.- George Orwell